Ferris State University President Dave Eisler has been announced as one of three final­ists for Northern Kentucky University’s pres­i­dent search.

Interviewing with NKU’s pres­i­den­tial search com­mit­tee March 10, Eisler was nom­i­nated for the posi­tion by his higher edu­ca­tion colleagues.

Eisler who has been pres­i­dent of FSU for nine years said now is a rea­son­able time to con­sider his future at FSU. (more…)

The Ferris State Hockey team will con­tinue on their jour­ney this year in the tour­na­ment as the sec­ond seed pick of the Midwest Regional.

The Bulldogs waited for their fate Sunday March 18 to see if this year they would par­tic­i­pate in the NCAA Division I Frozen Four Tournament. This will be only the sec­ond time that the Bulldogs have been selected for the NCAA tournament.

First game of the tour­na­ment will be against third seed Denver on March 23 in Green Bay, Wis. If vic­to­ri­ous, the Bulldogs will face­off on Saturday against the win­ners of the Michigan-Cornell game. At 5:30 p.m. Ferris has tick­ets avail­able at the box office for fans inter­ested in fol­low­ing the team this weekend.

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Bulldog senior guard Tricia Principe was selected as this issue’s “Athlete of the Week” for her out­stand­ing per­for­mance this sea­son as she helped the team to a GLIAC North Division Championship and an NCAA Tournament appear­ance. For her efforts, she recently claimed All-GLIAC Second Team recog­ni­tion. (more…)

When dis­as­ter strikes, every­one wants to know the affected peo­ple they love are safe. With a new pilot pro­gram insti­tuted in Japan, Facebook is help­ing mak­ing that possible.

Facebook’s dis­as­ter fea­ture will allow users to “Like” to sig­nify their safety post-natural dis­as­ter. This comes around the one year anniver­sary of the earth­quake and ensu­ing tsunami that hit Japan and accounted for over 15,000 deaths and another 3,287 peo­ple miss­ing. (more…)

This week I’d like to take the time to remem­ber some­one in music who was recently lost. I would like to take this week to remem­ber Davy Jones, singer and heart throb of The Monkees.

The Monkees hit the scene in 1966 for a hit British tele­vi­sion series that brought us such tunes as “Day Dream Believer” and “I Wanna Be Free.” With a pop-rock sound that took the world by storm, the Monkees drew in a wait­ing and enthralled audi­ence. (more…)

The Associated Press recently ran a story about the New York Police Department keep­ing tabs on var­i­ous Muslim stu­dent orga­ni­za­tions across the North-East. Several uni­ver­si­ties across the coun­try have been affected includ­ing Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

The NYPD tries to defend their actions by claim­ing they are merely try­ing to thwart ter­ror­ist attacks against the United States. They even claim their espi­onage cam­paigns against American Muslims have helped catch poten­tial ter­ror­ists. Maybe it has; spy on enough peo­ple for a long enough time and you’re bound to find some of them wrapped up in ille­gal activ­ity. (more…)

A fire was lit beneath senior for­ward Jordie Johnston dur­ing his last sea­son as a Bulldog that has led to him lead­ing Ferris’ ros­ter in scor­ing output.

Johnston doesn’t remem­ber a time where he wasn’t on the ice. He began skat­ing at about the age of two and started play­ing orga­nized hockey at the age of five.

As a Saskatchewan native, Johnston grew up play­ing hockey on his farm. His father built a back­yard rink for Jordie and his broth­ers. (more…)

Entering the NCAA Division II tour­na­ment for only the fourth time ever in school his­tory, the Lady Bulldogs looked to prove some­thing as they came in with the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region.

Sophomore guard Sarah DeShone knew it was going to be a big step in the pro­gram and said, “[The tour­na­ment] is a great expe­ri­ence, and this was our chance to prove something.”

On tap for the Bulldogs in the first round was Drury (Mo.) College who had earned the No. 7 seed in the same region on March 9. (more…)

With many stu­dents being caught fal­si­fy­ing their hours, Ferris is look­ing to adopt new poli­cies to bet­ter guard against sim­i­lar actions.

A new pol­icy is now in place for Kronos, the on-campus soft­ware used to record stu­dent employ­ees’ hours. The new pol­icy will pre­vent stu­dents from log­ging hours from off-campus computers.

In the begin­ning stages, every­thing did not go as planned as this new pol­icy caused many employ­ees of Ferris at off-campus sites to encounter prob­lems. Because of these prob­lems in the sys­tem, the sys­tem has been returned to its pre­vi­ous state. (more…)

It’s not a good feel­ing to be passed in a race by a child.

I was recently run­ning a 5k race and was feel­ing pretty good about my progress until I looked down and real­ized a five or six year old child and her mother were quickly dash­ing past me.

Needless to say, my con­fi­dence in my run­ning abil­ity was shot down the drain as I dis­cov­ered my accom­plish­ment of run­ning this race was attain­able by the younger coun­ter­parts of our soci­ety. (more…)